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Ambassador Holland delivers a statement on behalf of UK and Canada calling on the government of Georgia to withdraw its legislation on the Transparency of Foreign Influence, so that it can pursue its Euro-Atlantic trajectory.
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
Dr John Murton is the UK government’s COP26 Envoy. Find out more about COP26 , the 2021 UN Climate Conference. John was Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and non-resident Ambassador to the Republic of the...
The British Ambassador visited a project in Sololá that is allowing indigenous communities in the Zunil-Atitlán-Balam Juyu' corridor to improve their economy through the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity.
Michael Tatham is the Chief Executive Officer for the UK-African Investment Summit 2024. Previously Michael was the UK’s Deputy Ambassador to the USA, from January 2018 to July 2022. He has completed a number of diplomatic postings and has specialised...
George Sherriff was the British Deputy Ambassador to The Gambia from January 2012 until November 2014. He studied at Edinburgh University and upon graduating spent several years working in international development and politics before joining the Diplomatic service in 2007....
Pete Vowles has been the British Ambassador to Zimbabwe since October 2023. Prior to this he was the Transformation Director at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). Previously Pete was Chargé D’Affaires ad Interim at the British Embassy Yangon...
Martyn Keith Roper is a highly experienced career Diplomat with a successful track record in senior corporate leadership roles across the world. He was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire in June 1965. He was appointed as Governor of the Cayman...
Lindsay Skoll was appointed Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Austria and UK Permanent Representative to the UN in Vienna in January 2021. Lindsay joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1996, on return from working for the Japanese Ministry of...
Chris Sainty took up his appointment as Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Portugal in September 2018. Previously, he was the Deputy Head of Mission for Italy from August 2011 to August 2015. A career diplomat, he brings experience from a number...
Hugo Shorter was appointed as the Chargé d’Affaires ad Interim of the UK Mission to Afghanistan in January 2022. Previously he was the Director for the Americas and Small Island Developing States at the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office...
Gareth Bayley was appointed Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Arab Republic of Egypt in May 2021. Gareth was the Prime Minister’s Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, and the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) Director for South Asia and...
Paul Johnston joined the UK Civil Service in 1990, working for the Ministry of Defence initially. He has served in Paris and New York and has also had a wide range of political and security roles in the Foreign and...
Dr Ian Collard was appointed the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) Chief Property & Security Officer in March 2023. Ian’s previous role was the British Ambassador to Lebanon from 2021 to 2022. Ian was appointed Deputy Ambassador at the...
Julian Braithwaite was the Director General for Europe at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office from March 2022 to February 2023. Previously he was Director General in the Cabinet Office responsible for the EU from June 2021 to March 2022....
Mr Talwar has been appointed His Majesty’s Ambassador to the Republic of Djibouti and UK Representative to the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD). He joined the UK diplomatic service in 2003 and has had postings to New York, Geneva, Brussels,...
Ms Cowley took up her position as the Deputy Head of Mission Madrid in August 2021. Previously she was British Ambassador to Latvia 2013 to 2017 and Head of the then FCO’s Prosperity Fund department, 2017 to 2020. Sarah joined...
Vijay Rangarajan was a Director General at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office from 2020 to 2024. His role initially focused on the Americas and Overseas Territories, and later on the Indo-Pacific, Middle East and North Africa. Vijay was previously...
On 23 November, the British Embassy in Buenos Aires celebrated HM King Charles III’s birthday at Ambassador Hayes’s Residence.
Christopher Prentice took up his appointment in Italy during January 2011. Christopher joined the FCO in 1977 and has spent much of his career on Middle East affairs, including postings in Kuwait and later as Ambassador in Amman (2002-2006) and...
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